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Richard Olney

1835 - 1917

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Richard Olney (September 15, 1835 – April 8, 1917) was an American attorney, statesman, and Democratic Party politician who served as a member of the second cabinet of President Grover Cleveland as the 40th United States Attorney General from 1893 to 1895 and 34th Secretary of State from 1895 to 1897. As attorney general, Olney used injunctions against striking workers in the Pullman strike, setting a precedent, and advised the use of federal troops, when legal means failed to control the strikers. As Secretary of State, Olney mediated the Venezuelan crisis of 1895 and managed Cleveland's anti-expansionist policy in response to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the Cuban War of Independence, though both Hawaii and Cuba were annexed during the subsequent William McKinley administration. He raised the status of America in the world by elevating U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Olney has received more than 143,927 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Richard Olney is the 15,051st most popular politician (down from 13,450th in 2019), the 8,950th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,131st in 2019) and the 552nd most popular American Politician.

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  • 23

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Olney ranks 15,051 out of 15,577. Before him are Inger Støjberg, Harold Nicolson, Reiner Haseloff, Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, and Katarina Barley. After him are Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Dimitrios Drivas, Maurice Kouandété, Baldwin Spencer, Dimitris Avramopoulos, and Dumuzid the Fisherman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Richard Olney ranks 81. Before him are Johannes Wislicenus, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Osbert Salvin, Rebecca Latimer Felton, Vítězslav Hálek, and A. V. Dicey. After him are Archibald Geikie, Lyman Abbott, John La Farge, Fitzhugh Lee, and Alfred Austin. Among people deceased in 1917, Richard Olney ranks 103. Before him are James Crafts, Giuseppe Veronese, Mary Arthur McElroy, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Jules Vandenpeereboom, and Charles Horton Peck. After him are Albert Ball, Frank Odberg, Mackenzie Bowell, Florence La Badie, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, and Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Olney ranks 8,950 out of 18,182. Before him are Annette Funicello (1942), Bruce Schneier (1963), Lisa Nowak (1963), Ricardo Cortez (1900), Gregg Araki (1959), and Alfonso Ribeiro (1971). After him are Earl Scruggs (1924), Sylvester Graham (1794), Anikka Albrite (1988), Andrea Martin (1947), Robert Surtees (1906), and Irwin I. Shapiro (1929).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Richard Olney ranks 552. Before him are Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927), Edward Givens (1930), Benjamin Harrison V (1726), Melvin Laird (1922), Gavin Newsom (1967), and Bob Avakian (1943). After him are Alfred Francis Russell (1817), John F. Kelly (1950), John Adair (1757), Ken Salazar (1955), Robert M. La Follette (1855), and Jim Ross (1952).

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